Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

عندما تتحول الأنفاس إلى هواء: اجعل لحياتك معنى قبل فوات الأوان by Paul Kalanithi

38 reviews

deestreet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug use, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Physical abuse, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

captainrenjamin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma

tellingmyselfastory's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down. It's hopefully heartbreaking. One of the themes that kept coming up that I resonated with is the way the healthcare system dulls the empathy of it's professionals. How it's easier to disconnect into the statistics and turn the patient into another number. I found his philosophy on medicine fascinating. 

Our culture doesn't like to discuss death but this does in such a thoughtful way. It's real and honest.  But it's also about living. And how living and dying are connected. Living with the knowledge you are dying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infertility and Pregnancy

Discussion of IVF and family planning

kira20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Gore and Suicide

venetiana's review against another edition

I'm sure this is great, just too heavy for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

Minor: Grief

thefemale_nickmiller's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

mdwsn27's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Medical trauma

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

super obvious observation, but you could tell paul was really intelligent and thoughtful from his writing alone. it's kinda crazy that he wrote this in the later stages of his cancer, when it's a struggle just to breathe, let alone write a memoir. it tickled the part of my brain that is interested in science and medicine, and i appreciate that this memoir merged those two interests. i learned a lot about neuroscience and the brutal work life of neurosurgeons. and i admire that paul was so passionate about writing and literature. i think because of how intelligent he is, he lost me at some parts that got more technical and descriptive. i think he occasionally strayed from his central point and went on tangents. but the epilogue made me cry hard and feel existential. i think memoirs like this are really thought-provoking and i'd like to dive into other works in this vein.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

tpeacock9's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma